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Foster + Partners and Sasaki Associates designing Sierra Leone island city for Idris Elba

Deezen

Architecture studios Sasaki Associates and Foster + Partners are masterplanning a smart city for up to a million people on Sherbro island in Sierra Leone. Sherbro Alliance Partners, which is co-ordinating the masterplan, has enlisted energy company Octopus to develop a strategy for electricity generation based on wind power.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Her publications include the books 49 Cities and Above the Pavement—the Farm! both of which seek to redefine the relationship between cities, farms and nature. Left: Student Residence in Saclay_momentum, Saclay, France, 2020 A+Awards Popular Winner in the Small Multi-Unit Housing category; Right: Anna Maria Bordas via Bordas+Peiro.

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BDP Architects Practice Information + News

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The newly opened Wren Urban Nest, based in the heart of Dublin, is a 137-room, nine floor hotel designed and built using the most advanced carbon reduction technologies, making it one of Europe’s most sustainable hotels in a major city centre. There is no greater proof that People Make Glasgow than to see the city without its crowds.

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"I have a confession to make: I have no idea what placemaking is"

Deezen

UK housing secretary Michael Gove is backing the creation of a new "School of Place" ; the city of San Francisco has adopted a placemaking ordinance called "Places for People" ; Edinburgh Council has invited the public to participate in a "placemaking consultation".

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Scottish Architecture News: Buildings in Scotland

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An updated masterplan for a £100m world-class golf resort, hotel and spa in the Angus countryside has been submitted to Angus Council for planning consent by 3DReid architects. million sq ft masterplan in urban placemaking, it is one of the UK’s largest inner-city regeneration projects. Design: 3DReid Architects, Edinburgh.

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100 Best Architecture Firms in the World [2020 Update]

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The Top 100 Architecture Firms in the World 2020 Edition. Aidea represents another influential architecture firm in the Philippines, located in the financial hub of Makai City. Most recently, Aida was placed at number 45 in the Building Design 2020 World Architect 100. ALUMINUM CITY | Bahrain. Showa Sekkei.

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Why after 20 years EBDI is still no success story

Community Architect Daily

To this end one of the testimonies towards a Planned Unit Development (PUD) bill before the City Council began this way: The wrong game all along? Middle East had been one of the most disinvested areas in the City. Homeownership was a low 18% and the poverty rate was 48%, twice the City average.